ultrageranium @320x200@post.lurk.org

It's out this morning! I'm excited. 🙂

https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/a-carefully-controlled-space-2

L'après grève de la faim des personnes #sanspapiers - une lettre à leur voisins.
"8 bonnes raisons
de soutenir
la régularisation
1. Régulariser, c’est lutter contre le travail au noir et la fraude sociale.
2. Régulariser les travailleurs et travailleuses répondrait au problème de pénurie de main-d’œuvre.
3. Cela rapporterait par ailleurs jusqu’à 65 millions d’euros nets par mois dans les caisses de la sécurité sociale.
4. Les expulsions et la détention
en centre fermé coûtent très cher à l’État.
5. Régulariser est la condition sine qua non au respect des droits fondamentaux de toutes les personnes vivant en Belgique.
6. Régulariser, c’est lutter contre l’exclusion sociale, le racisme et la montée de l’extrême droite.
7. La Belgique a déjà mené des campagnes de régularisation sans que cela n’engendre d’«appel d’air». Cette crainte est donc injustifiée.
8. Régulariser, c’est rendre leur dignité aux femmes, hommes et enfants qui ont déjà tout perdu."
Signer la pétition. #Belgium
https://www.wearebelgiumtoo.be

I set up my A500+ again, using ATI TV Wonder video capture card in a Pentium 4 desktop, connected to a VGA monitor.

I found the floppy disk with my utils (written in Blitz Basic 2) for sending/receiving files via MIDI SysEx. recompiled the receiver with a larger buffer size so I could send LhA.run downloaded from aminet (buffer needs to be at least 2N+3 bytes for an N byte file). made a backup as the disk had some read/write errors.

I needed to write 2 small utils in C on the Linux side to do the what the attachched did on the Amiga side, but I made them work as stdio filters - the actual transfer is done with the amidi tool.

Then connecting MIDI: the Amiga external ProMIDI interface out/in to my Linux external UA-25 interface in/out (got them plugged correctly on first try).

Transferred lha.run to Amiga, ran it to decompress it, archived my source code to a new lha archive, transferred them to Linux.

Set up FS-UAE on my laptop, installed Workbench2.0_GB.adf onto a virtual hard drive, rebooted, installed Blitz Basic 2 from CD ISO (downloaded from archive.org), installed lha.run amigae33a.lha and ec33a.lha from aminet, so that I can do some develoment emulated, with a keyboard that works properly (A500+'s E key is broken, and 2 and S are a bit dodgy).

Took me 5 years to properly publish my PhD thesis and come to terms with what this document symbolizes to me: an interminable period of stress, loneliness and resentment. Anywho, the PDF is now on ResearchGate, with DOI and all: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353371281_Extending_Horizons_-_The_Praxis_Of_Experimental_Publishing_In_The_Age_Of_Digital_Networks

Even though it is nicer to access it from http://p-dpa.net/extending-horizons/

Pretty proud of Other Worlds's new issue. Here, French designer Anaëlle Beignon tackles the notion of obsolescence, showing how it is not an "essential" feature of a device, but a relational quality involving societal and technical expectations. https://buttondown.email/otherworlds/archive/ow-2-design-for-obsolete-devices-by-anaelle/

It's this time of the year...

BLUE LINKS
XPUB GRADSHOW 2021 🖼️ 🔥

Date: Saturday, 17th of July
Time: 15:00h - 21:00h
Location(s): VARIA (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), Nieuw Charlois (Wolphaertsbocht 81, Rotterdam), RIB (Katendrechtse Lagedijk 490B, Rotterdam), Ateliers M42 (Gouwstraat 34 a/b, Rotterdam), The Pole (Pompstraat 40-B1, Rotterdam)

https://varia.zone/en/xpub-blue-links.html

#XPUB #Rotterdam #varia #cursors

"You are too late": the house property situation in Rotterdam. Poster by Yuri Veerman.

https://shadowlibraries.club

a Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) community of shadow libraries: for discussing theory and techniques on electronic books, digitization, publishing, sharing, discovery and archiving.

for invites write root@shadowlibraries.club

behind the scene: go-ssb-room https://github.com/ssb-ngi-pointer/go-ssb-room

animatedWebCursors.js is here!
This is a simple javascript file that gives you control over the browser cursor, alowing for fully animated cursors using CSS's cursor functionality.
github: https://github.com/alienmelon/animatedWebCursors
demo: http://tetrageddon.com/cursors/
includes...
* classic animated windows XP cursors
* as many animations as you want!!
* a lite version

Has anyone managed to revive a mastodon account that suffers from this issue? (I'm on the latest version.)

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/14676

Last night I tried the suggested hack to users.rb, used tootctl to modify the account I'm trying to reactivate with the --enable and --approve flags (the only relevant options) and spent some time hunting for where the security code is stored in the postgres database but I'm still locked out.

It's not a huge deal, I can easily make new accounts, but it would be kinda nice to reclaim my old one too... (I'm planning to use it as a secondary place to post things related to the radio.af project...)